On 02-07-2005 20:20 Peter
Did you replace the anti-squeal shims or coat them with brake grease or copper-slip when you put the new pads in?
OP: Are these the original pads? I don't know about Saxos but on the Rover 214 I had and a friend's Civic (basically the same car and uses the same front brakes) there is a metal bracket riveted on to one pad each side that touches the disk when there is ~3mm material left. The idea is that it causes a squeak to alert you that the pads need changing (cheaper than a warning light I guess). In the handbook for my Saab 9-3 it says that the brakes (are designed to) squeak when the pads need changing - I haven't looked at the brakes on this, but I guess it uses a similar "mechanism".
Also, on both my Rover and my friend's Civic, when I changed the pads there was 3-4mm more material on one side (i.e. one wheel, not one side of the same disk) than the other. The pads with more material on could be pulled out by hand, the other side required a hammer to remove them from the carrier so it could be the pads sticking in the carrier-caliper causing them not to release properly.
Parish
